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The excitement of anticipation was almost equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

John Irving

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Civilization Perception Years
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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Musical Tennis Wrestling
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Stories Want Writing
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper

The excitement of anticipation was almost equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

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